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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"black feminist theory"”.
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Where Are All The Gifted Black Girls? Giving High School Girls Voice Via Qualitative Research Approach And Black Feminist Theory
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>WHERE ARE ALL THE GIFTED BLACK GIRLS? </p> <p>GIVING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VOICE VIA QUALITATIVE RESEARCH APPROACH AND BLACK FEMINIST THEORY</p> <p>by</p> <p>MARY L. MONTIE</p> <p>May 2013</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Karen L. Tonso</p> <p>Major: Educational Evaluation and Research </p> …
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Lemons Into Lemonade: Black Undergraduate Women's Embodiment of Strength and Resilience at a PWI
… is a qualitative research project for Black undergraduate women and about Black undergraduate women. The aim of this dissertation is to lift, center, and share the lived experiences of Black undergraduate women as they reflect on the messages and memories of coming into their Blackness, …
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We've Only Just Begun: A Black Feminist Analysis of Eleanor Smeal's National Press Club Address
The voices of black women have traditionally been excluded from rhetorical scholarship, both as a subject of study and as a methodological approach. Despite the little attention black feminist thought has received, black women have long been articulating the unique intersection of oppressions they …
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The Impact of Academic Climate on Black Women's Experiences in Higher Education
… theoretical framework of the study is based on Black feminist theory that focuses on institutional racism and sexism. The author describes exclusionary experiences in academia, which also constitute her own personal narrative, since she herself is a living testimony of the institutional isms …
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When and where I enter : a phenomenological study of Black women at a selective predominantly White institution
Black females are the majority of Black students enrolled at both PWIs and HBCUs. HBCUs award a significant number of degrees to Black students despite the fact that they only educate 11% of all undergraduates enrolled today (Gasman, 2012). Why aren’t we seeing the same completion rates of Black …
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Spoken Self: Recognizing, Renaming, and Reclaiming
… who they are. I look through the lens of Black Feminist theory because it affords me the opportunity to amplify issues of race, gender, and class, particularly as these aspects relate to African-American girls and other minority groups in mainstream schooling. Through this lens, I use a …
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An Ethnography Study of HIV Positive Midlife Black Women
Black women, ages 45 and older, are disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In 2001, Black women comprised 11% of all older women in the United States; however, they accounted for more than 50% of AIDS cases and more than 65% of HIV cases (Winningham et al., 2004). The literature …
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Returning the gaze from the margins: decoding representations of gender, race and sexuality in tourist images of Jamaica
… the repeated visual associations made with blackness and servitude, and whiteness with luxury from the colonial period in Jamaica and the imperial context in Britain. The thesis addresses a range of tourist advertising images of Jamaica which are analysed in terms of their representations of …
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Fighting An Uphill Battle: Black Undergraduate Women Navigating Higher Education While Acknowledging and Challenging Media Portrayals of Black Women
… shows often become barriers that limit Black women in higher education, influencing the ways in which they experience college campuses, including how they are treated by faculty and peers and how they interact with others in these spaces. This study examined the perspectives of Black …
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Cultivating Voice Through Web 2.0-Infused Critical Media Literacy: Pedagogy for African American Girls
… their voices. The conceptual framework draws on Black feminist theory, which addresses the validation of Black women’s unique realities (Few, Stephens, & Rouse-Arnett, 2003). This qualitative case study indicates that girls need a conduit of self-expression that inhibits that silencing effects of …
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The Confrontation of White Supremacy: A Consciousness Raising Group Experience
… The theoretical framework for this study was black feminist theory. Black feminist theorists' emphasis of the importance of lived experience and dialogue in questioning the structures of dominant powers was an important component of the study. Qualitative research was employed in an effort to …
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Black Feminist Liberatory Pedagogy and Ubuntu Solidarity: Toward an Otherwise World of Education
… the good in a thriving classroom comprised of Black and Brown teachers and students through a lens of Black feminist theory, and the third manuscript interrogates what it takes emotionally and intellectually to do this work as a white woman scholar who seeks ubuntu feminist solidarity. The …
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Narratives of Black Female Elementary School Teachers: Navigating the Normative Discourse of Whiteness
… research study illuminates the experiences of Black elementary school teachers as they navigate through whiteness on their identity journey. The purpose of this study was to examine the counter-narratives of identity by Black female elementary school teachers within the discourse of Whiteness …
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Staging [in]visible subjects: Blackqueer bodies, social death and performance
Staging [In]visible Subjects: BlackQueer Bodies, Social Death and Performance is an examination of the ways in which death and violence operate within the lives of black/queer youth. Black/queer youth experience marginalization across several dimensions of difference (i.e. race, class, sexuality, …
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Effects Of Racial Microaggressions On Black Women’s Work Performance As Government Workers
… the connection between society’s perception of Black women and their experiences of racial microaggressions in a work environment, and further understand the effect these experiences have on their work performance. Despite federal regulations to eliminate workplace discrimination, there are …
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Re-visioning Katrina: Exploring Gender in pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans
… must interrogate the cultural conflation of the black female body and the city's legacy to explore what it means and how it situates real black women in social, cultural, and physical landscapes. Using a hybrid theoretical framework informed by Black feminist theory, ecocriticism, critical race …
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The Resilience Of Black Female Leaders In Higher Education And Racial Microaggression
<p>This study explored the experiences of Black female leaders in higher education and their encounters with racial microaggression. Additionally, the opportunity to understand the effects of racial slights within the workplace as either a mid to senior level leadership was also explored. …
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A Theoretical Framework for Black Women’s Leader Development
… examines the leader development journeys of Black women, identifying key contributors and inhibitors that influence their progression into and experiences within formal leadership positions. This study employed a grounded theory methodology, integrated with an intersectional framework and …
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Synthetic Solidarities: Theorizing Queer Affectivity and Trans*national/temporal Emulsification as Embodied Resistance to Global Capitalism
… transdisciplinarity to be a part of the praxis/theory of cultivating such synthetic solidarities that confound the structures of capital-space-time. As such, I (gender)fuck with genre, and format throughout, interweaving theoretical and autotheoretical writing with prose, poetics, and altered …
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Black Cyborgs: Blackness Narratives in Technology, Speculative Fiction, and Digital Cultures
This project draws from the deep well of Black science fiction, original interviews with Black science fiction authors, and popular media case studies and analysis to generate new discourses about Black people and technology. Exploring the ways Black people have taken up both science fiction and …
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